Dolce Inclinazione (Sweet Inclination)

Details

Piero Dorazio (1927-2005)
Dolce Inclinazione (Sweet Inclination)
signed, titled and dated 'PIERO DORAZIO, 1965 "DOLCE INCLINAZIONE"' (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
36 x 48in. (91.4 x 121.9cm.)
Painted in 1964-1965

Provenance

Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York.
Private Collection (acquired from the above in 1969).
Acquired from the above by the present owner circa 2004.

Literature

M. Volpi Orlandini, Dorazio, Venice 1977, no. 733 (illustrated, p. 202).

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Lot Essay

'The surface of a canvas is a surface of two dimensions, and from that surface we make an optical phenomenon, we create an image that produces in the observer a sensation, an emotion, from all of which arises successively a problem, a reasoning, a thought, an idea, let us say in fact a mode of thought and of the spirit; if we do that, then we are in presence of art.' PIERO DORAZIO

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